Tag Archives: Hashtags

Updating my twitterfeed with hashtags

Posted on 10. Feb, 2009 by .

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In case you missed the bus last week, the Children’s Minsitry community adopted a Twitter hashtag. It’s been a hit so far. So, if you’re blogging anything about children’s ministry, be sure to include #kidmin in your tweet.

Well, as a result, I had to update my twitterfeed. What is twitterfeed? I wrote about it many months ago here. Honestly, if you’re a blogger and you use twitter, why are you not using it? Basically it’s a third party service that scans your blog… or any blog for that matter. Whenever a new post is published, a pre-written tweet is sent out with a link to the new post. Honestly, when I do look at my stats, I’ve found that Twitter and Facebook are becoming a much more significant referrer to my blog. That’s because of twitterfeed (facebook only because my twitter updates my facebook status).

Today I updated my pre-written tweet to include the #kidmin hashtag. This way my tweets about my new posts will be picked up by those following #kidmin. I’ve found it to be an invaluable tool. So, if you’re not using it, go ahead and set it up today.

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Children’s Ministry Twitter Hashtag

Posted on 03. Feb, 2009 by .

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Hey to all my children’s ministry friends who twitter. My friend John @johnincolorado asked if I knew if there was a commonly used hashtag for children’s ministry. What a great idea. I’ve not seen one. Initially he suggested #childrensminisry. Personally I think it’s too long. Perhaps #CM or #KidsMin. What do you all think? Let’s figure one out this week, make sure there’s not already a hashtag for this and then start using it. That way when we twitter CM specific stuff, we can add the hashtag to categorize these in the twitter world.

Also, another request. I’m still very new to the hashtag business. When I started seeing everyone begin to use them, I tried looking them up in google and wikipedia and couldn’t really find very helpful explanations. I also wasn’t using very sophisticated twitter applications that serched hashtags. Anyone want to write a blog post or two about hashtags, what they are, which ones are some good ones to follow and how you use any particular twitter application to follow hashtags. I know there’s a lot for me to learn and I’m sure there’s a lot of people out there who still don’t have a clue what a hashtag is.

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